The [AR] Coliseum
Sunday, September 11, 2005, 01:55 PM - Apt-get Install, Games
From the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo:
In this study, a game environment using augmented reality (AR) technology that enables virtual functions for playing a game using small robots is proposed. Similar to how children can use their imaginations to make a normal room into the air for playing games with toy airplane, we propose a way to embody such imaginations virtually by superimposing computer graphics onto toys in the real world.
Playing with toys such as small robots and vehicles is improved and enhanced by projecting images to the areas corresponding to the actual positions and directions of the toys. In addition, objects are able to express the phenomena of this augmented reality world by controlling actuators according to the results of simulations.
In the environment that we propose, the games are played with small robots and vehicles that can be treated as actual toys of the real world.
How cool is that.
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